Deeds (Act) of Apostles 26:15-32

¹⁵And I said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus, whom thou persecutest or pursuest.

¹⁶But rise up, and stand on thy feet. For why to this thing I appeared to thee, that I ordain thee minister and witness of those things that thou hast seen, and of those things in which I shall show or shall appear to thee.

¹⁷And I shall deliver thee from peoples and folks, to which now I send thee,

¹⁸to open the eyes of them, that they be converted or turned from darkness to light, and from power of Satan to God, that they take remission of sins, and part among saints, by faith that is in me.

¹⁹Wherefore, sir king Agrippa, I was not unbelieveful to the heavenly vision;

²⁰but I told or I showed to them, that be at Damascus first, and at Jerusalem, and by all the country of Judea, and to heathen men, that they should do penance, and be converted to God, and do worthy works of penance.

²¹For this cause, Jews took me, when I was in the temple, to slay me.

²²But I was helped by the help of God till into this day, and stand, witnessing to less and to more. And I say nothing else than which things the prophets and Moses spake that shall come,

²³if Christ is to suffer, if he is the first of the again-rising of dead men, that shall show light to the people and to heathen men.

²⁴When he spake these things, and yielded reason, Festus said with great voice, Paul, thou maddest or thou waxest mad; many letters turn thee to madness.

²⁵And Paul said, I mad not, thou best Festus, but I speak out the words of truth and of soberness.

²⁶For also the king, to whom I speak steadfastly, knoweth of these things; for I deem, that nothing of these is hid from him; for neither in a corner was aught of these things done.

²⁷Believest thou, king Agrippa, to prophets? I know that thou believest.

²⁸And Agrippa said to Paul, In little thing thou counselest me for to be made a christian man.

²⁹And Paul said, I desire with God, both in little and in great, not only thee, but all these that hear today, to be made such as I am, except these bonds.

³⁰And the king rose up, and the president, and Bernice, and they that sat nigh to them.

³¹And when they went away, they spake together, and said, That this man hath not done anything worthy death, neither or bonds.

³²And Agrippa said to Festus, This man might be delivered or dismissed, if he had not appealed to the emperor or to Caesar.